Apparatus for handling fabrics



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H. K. PARRY.

APPARATUS FUR HANDLING FABRICS.

(Application filed Feb. 5, 1898.)

Patented Dec. l3, I898.

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APPARATUS FOR HANDLING FABRICS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAMILTON KERR PARRY, OF LUCAS, OHIO.

APPARATU\S FOR HANDTLING FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 615,890, dated December13, 1898.

Application filed February 5, 1898.

1'0 M6 w/w'm it may concern:

Be it known that LHAMILTON KERR PARRY, of Lucas, in the county ofRichland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Apparatusfor Handling Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention is an apparatus on which rolls of fabric, particularlyoil-cloth, may be mounted and advantageouslydisplayed, and then when itis desired to part with a portion of any roll the fabric may be unwoundand measured and the apparatus adjusted to cut the fabric.

This specification is a disclosure of one form of my invention, Whilethe claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Referenceis to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention with parts arranged inposition to dis play the goods. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of theinvention with the parts drawn down into position for measuring andcutting the goods. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through theapparatus. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is asection on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a detail sectionshowing the measuring-tape.

The apparatus has two side boards or framesections 7, terminating attheir lower ends in feet 8 and rigidly joined to each other at theirlower portions by means of braces 9. The upper ends of the side boards 7are joined to each other at their front edges by means of a bar 10, theextremities of which project past the side boards, and at their rearedges by means of a bar 11, the extremities of which also project pastthe side boards 7.

Attached to the inner or contiguous faces of the side boards 7 arecleats 12, provided with curved slots 13, adapted to receive the bars orrollers 14, whereon are wound fabrics, as shown best in Fig. 3. Eachside board 7 has two cleats 12. Pivoted to the upper rear portion ofeach side board 7, and at the outer face thereof, are arms 15, which arecapable of swinging upwardly to the position shown in Fig. 1 ordownwardly to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When the Serial No.659,254. (No modelJ arms are raised,as shown in Fig. 1, their move mentis limited by the bar 11 and when the arms are thrown down, as shown inFigs. 2 and 3,theirmovementislimitedbythebarlO. The free ends of thearms 15 are rigidly connected by means of a cutter-bar 16, which whenlowered with the arms 15 projects out forward of the bar 10. The bar 16is provided with a longitudinally-extending slot 17, running through itsupper portion and having an undercut, as shown best in Figs. 4 and 5.Slid ing in the slot 17 is the T-shaped lower portion or foot 18 of thecutter-block 19. The cutter-block 19 is provided with a slot 20 toreceive the fabric and carries a knife 2 arranged diagonally at theinner end of the lot, so as to engage and sever the fabric. Fig. 3 showsone layer of the fabric passed over the cutter-bar 16, and when thefabric is so arranged the knife or cutter-block 19 is moved through theslot 17 so that the fabric will first enter the slot 20 of the block 19and will be engaged and severed by the knife 21. Pivotally mounted onthe bar 16 is a spring-pressed lever 22, one end of which is providedwith a knob 23, (shown in Fig. 2,) which knob is thrown by the springinto engagement with the bar 10. This lever 22 serves to press thefabric down on and secure it to the bar 10. Projecting from the outerface of each side board 7 and at approximately the middle thereof is apin 24, said pins being respectively received in slots 25, formed inarms 26. The arms 26 may be held in the positions shown in Figs.

2 and 3 by means of pins 27, that are located in each side board 7. Thearms 26 may be dropped into folded position, as shown in Fig. 1, bydisengaging them from the pins 27. The arms 26 are rigidly connected attheir free ends by means of a transverse bar 28, and on this transversebar 28, when in the position shown in Figs. 2 and3, the fabric is tobefolded preparatory to severing it by the cuttor-block 19 and its knife21.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 6, the right-hand portion of the cutter-bar 16is formed with a cavity 29, having a slot or mouth leading to the outerside of. the bar. Located in this cavity is a casing 30, having aspring-pressed reel 81, whereon is wound a tape 32, which passes fromthe casing 30, through the mouth thereof, and is provided at its outerend with a ring 38, which engages with the bar 16 to prevent the tapefrom moving entirely into the bar, it being understood that the springof the reel 31 tends to draw the tape inward, as is the case with theordinary tape-reel. The parts within the cavity 29 may have any desiredconstruction, it being only essential that the tape be spring-acted toreturn into the bar 113. The tape should measure a yard from the slot 17and should, as will be understood, have graduations for smallermeasurements. Fig. 2 shows the tape drawn out; but when the tape isreleased it returns to the bar 16 by the action of the spring-pressedreel.

In using the invention the oil-cloth or other fabric is mounted betweenthe cleats 12 on the rods 14: or on other suitable rolls, and for thepurposes of display-for example, in a sales.

room-the oil-cloth is laid over the bar in the manner shown in Fig. 1,the arms 15 and their cutter-bar 16 being thrown back to raisedposition. Should it be now desired to cut off a portion of theoil-cloth, the roll from which said portion is to be taken is unwoundand the free end of the oil-cloth is placed over the cutter-bar 16, saidbar having previously been moved down to the position shown in Figs. 2and 3. By means of the tape-measure the cloth is now measured, and whenthe desired length has been drawn over the bar 16 the lever 22, with itsknob 23, is engaged with the oil-cloth to hold the oil-cloth steadily onthe bar. The free portion of the cloth may be folded over thebar 28, asshown in Fig. 0. The normal position of the knife-block 19 is that shownin Fig. 2, which is to say at the right-hand portion of the cutter-bar16. This knife-block should now be moved leftward along the bar 16, sothat the knife 21 of the block will sever the cloth, after which thecloth may be bundled and shipped.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The combination with a frame having two side portionsjoined rigidly by braces, of means carried by the frame for mounting thefabric-carrying rollers, a bar attached to the side portions of theframe and running horizontally between the same and projecting laterallybeyond them, two arms pivoted respectively to the side portions at theouter faces thereof and capable of extending horizont-ally to engagementwith the respective ends of the side bar, whereby to support the freeends of the arms, a second bar carried rigidly by the free ends of thearms and moving therewith, and a cutter mounted to slide on said secondbar so that the fabric from the rolls may be drawn over the second barand cut thereon.

HAMILTON KERR PARRY.

lVitnesses:

THOMAS A. PARRY, WALTER FLETCHER.

